Seminars

A list of seminars and webinars of relevance to researchers in infectious diseases. Joining links will be updated as they are made available.

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - Delineating mechanisms of immune tailoring at the oral barrier

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Joanne Konkel, University of Manchester

Hosts: Andrew MacDonald

Institute of Ecology & Evolution seminar series - Molecular Mechanisms and Evolutionary Dynamics of X-linked Meiotic Drive in Drosophila simulans

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Cécile Courret, Université Paris-Saclay

Host: Laura Ross

EdiRNA Society Seminar Series 4

Date: Wednesday 12th November 2025

Time: 3 to 5 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Building, Kings Buildings (* Please note that access to the building after 17:00 is card only. )

Speakers: 

Dr Takanobu Tagawa – “Host and viral circular RNAs regulated by infection with human herpesviruses” – Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry & Biotechnology, University of Edinburgh

Dr Rute Pinto – "Udderly viral: how special is cow flu?" - Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh

Dr Alison Galloway – "CMTR1 directs mitochondrial dynamics during T cell activation through epitranscriptomic regulation of splice isoforms" - Cowling Lab, Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute / Beatson Institute

Gabriele Bagusinskaite (PGR) - "RNase R-mediated regulations of MRSA survival in hostile host environments" - Granneman Lab, Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology, University of Edinburgh
 

Registration: Please register at eventbrite link

Edinburgh Chromatin, Epigenetics & Transcriptional Regulation Network Meeting

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025

Time: 4 - 6 pm

Location: HRB Lecture theatre, Hugh Robson Bldg, George Square, EH8 9XD.

Speakers: 

Kyle Muir (Institute of Cell Biology), “How to exercise proper restraint when (not) segregating your chromosomes”

Wenduo Qi (Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research), “Epigenomic and Transcriptomic Susceptibility to Air Pollution”

Qingqin Ji (Institute of Cell Biology), “Nuclear envelope invagination-directed gene regulation"

Caelan Bell (Visiting Speaker - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology - Vienna), “Centromeric chromatin organisation through electrostatic repulsion”

Hosts: Doug Vernimmen (Roslin Institute) and Sari Pennings (INCR)

One Health Series of events 2025 - Bench, Barn and Bedside: One Health Animal Bioscience for Animals and Humans

Date: Thursday 13 November 2025

Time: 1 pm - 2 pm 

Location: G.01 William Dick Building, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian

Online: Via TEAMS Password: E8co7Zj3

Speakers: Jacqueline Smith, Joe Rainger and Nick Wade

This event will be led by the 'Animal biosciences, agriculture and aquaculture' cluster.

*This event is for The University of Edinburgh Staff and Students only*

Hosts: Megan Davey, Simon Lillico and Smaragda Tsairidou

Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Autumn Session

Date: Thursday 13 November 2025

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speakers: 

One Health Series of events keynote 2025 - Towards making One Health impactful

Date: Friday 14 November 2025

Time: 12.45 pm - 2 pm 

Location: G.022, Roslin Auditorium, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian

Keynote Speaker: Professor Tony Holohan

  • 12:45pm - Registration opens in the Roslin Institute Atrium.
  • 1:10pm-2:00pm - Keynote with Professor Tony Holohan.
  • 2:00pm - Further discussion with Professor Holohan will be welcome after the keynote.

Registration is required to attend this keynote. This is an in-person event.

Monday Seminar Series - The Cryo FIB-SEM facility at UoE - What can it do for you?

Date: Monday 17 November 2025

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford, G.27, LT1

Speaker: Fraser Laidlaw, Institute for Condensed Matter Physics and Complex Systems,UoE

Host: Louise Horsfall, IQB3

Institute of Cell Biology Special Seminar - The nucleoplasmic reticulum, enigmatic player in nuclear structure and function

Date: Tuesday 18 November 2025

Time: 12 pm

Location: Swann Building 7.20, King's Buildings, Edinburgh 

Speaker: David Vaux, University of Oxford

Centre for Inflammation Research Seminar - MAPS technology and its use in vaccine development

Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025

Time: 12 pm to 1pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speaker:  Dr Yingjie Lu, Research Associate, Division of Infectious Diseases, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Host: Professor Debby Bogaert

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - Integrating ecological and historical data into population genetic inferences: from Mo'orea fishes to Mascarene birds

Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM.  Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Stefano Mona, Université PSL, Paris

Host: Simon Martin

Monday Seminar Series

Date: Monday 24 November 2025

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford, G.27, LT1

Speaker: Prof. Matt Neale, University of Sussex

Host: Adele Marston, ICB

Centre for Inflammation Research Seminar - Unlocking CNS-specific mechanisms of antifungal immunity

Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025

Time: 12 pm to 1pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speaker: Dr Rebecca Drummond, Institute of Immunology & Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham

Host: Dr Laura McCulloch

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Sean Stankowski, University of Sussex

Host: Konrad Lohse

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - The sex lives of malaria parasites

Date: Thursday 27 November 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Arthus Talman, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Host: Various

Monday Seminar Series - Shuffling the deck: How chromosomes pair and recombine in meiosis

Date: Monday 1 December 2025

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford, G.27, LT1

Speaker: Dr Simone Köhler - EMBL, Barcelona

Host: Dhanya Cheerambathur, ICB

Centre for Inflammation Research Seminar - Metabolic pathway defects in hepatocytes and hepatic stellate cells: their role in liver cancer progression

Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025

Time: 10 am to 11 am

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speaker: Dr Hyon-Seung Yi, Chungnam National University College of Medicine, Korea

Host: Professor Prakash Ramachandran

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - protozoan - crypto genetic screens

Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Bishara Marzook, The Francis Crick Institute

Host: Andrew Maclean

Easter Bush Seminar Series - Transforming the Debate about livestock systems transformation

Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025

Time: 1.30 pm

Location: the Roslin Auditorium, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG

Speaker: Dominic Moran GAAFS, TRADE

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Nelly Olova, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh

Host: Internal

Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Winter Lecture 2025 - Fragments of a life in HIV research

Date: Thursday 4 December 2025

Time: 5.30 - 6.30 pm (Closing drinks reception from 6.30 pm)

Location: Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Doorway 3 Edinburgh EH8 9AG

Speaker: Prof Graham Hart, University College London

Registration: Please register to attend on Eventbrite

Host: Edinburgh Infectious Diseases

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - Protozoan diseases of cattle

Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Liam Morrison, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, Midlothian

Hosts: Achim Schnaufer/K Matthews

Centre for Inflammation Research Seminar - Evolution of the plague bacillus, a pandemic pathogen that shaped human history

Date: Wednesday 14 January 2026

Time: 12 pm to 1 pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speaker: Dr Javier Pizarro-Cerda, Pasteur Institute, Paris

Host: Jose Vazquez-Boland

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 14 January 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Simon Boitard, CBGP Montpellier

Host: Matthew Hartfield

Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Winter Session

Date: Thursday 22 January 2026

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speakers: 

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 1 April 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22

Speaker: Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, UAB Barcelona

Host: Simon Martin

Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Spring Session

Date: Thursday 30 April 2026

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speakers: 

Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Summer Session

Date: Thursday 11 June 2026

Time: 1.30 pm to 5pm

Location: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UU

Speakers: 

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